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Interactive Website Makes Fun of Romney's Tax Plan

President Obama has reproached Mitt Romney for not providing details on his alleged "$5 trillion tax cut plan" and how he'd pay for it. Now the Democratic National Committee has launched an interactive website that builds on the Obama campaign's claims that Romney's evading the details.

At romneytaxplan.com, under Romney's campaign logo and slogan, you'll read this: "For a detailed explanation of how the Romney-Ryan tax plan is able to cut taxes by $5 trillion without raising taxes on the middle class or exploding the deficit, simply click the button below."

A big, red button that reads "get the details" is in the middle of the page. If you try to click it though, or if you even try to just get close to it with your mouse, the button dodges your pointer and moves around the page. At the same time, a change appears beneath the slogan "Believe in America," correcting it to "Believe in — half of — America." A clear jab at Romney's "47%" comment.

A banner appears at the bottom of the page: "Mitt Romney has ducked and side-stepped every attempt to get the details of his plan, which sticks the middle class with the bill for $5 trillion in tax cuts favoring millionaires and billionaires. Get the facts on his plan." If you click on the last sentence, you're taken to a page on barackobama.com that criticizes Romney's proposed plan.

The website was paid for by the DNC but is not endorsed by any candidate, including Obama, a dislaimer says.

Obama has repeatedly mentioned this "$5 trillion tax plan," including during the first presidential debate. And Romney has continued to deny that he even has a plan to cut $5 trillion in taxes. Fact-checking website PolitiFact calls Obama's claim "half true."

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